Promotion of gender equality -a case study
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2025
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UWC
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The Constitution of SA 1996 (Act 108 of 1996) establishes the need for equality, and opportunity
or access to government services and enshrines local government as one of the three spheres
of government which is mandated to uphold and ensure adherence to sensitive gender dynamics.
In terms of the above, the study aims to investigate the increasing awareness for the need for
representativeness in local government in recent years in the context of the draft gender policy of
the City of Cape Town (CCT). The emphasis on gender, rather on women, implies the need to develop
effective linkages between gender and other forms of inequality through concerted policy efforts.
Since coming to office in 1994, the Government of South Africa (SA) has made strong and legal
binding commitments to uphold and promote gender equality and has established comprehensive
national machinery to implement and monitor these commitments. The study of national policy
focuses on the national/local machinery which was instituted by government to give guidance and to
monitor the implementation of gender equality.